Wordly Riches or God's Riches?

I am reading the book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ronald J. Sider. The more I read it, the more God opens my eyes to a biblical perspective of wealth and abundance. As I read it, God convicts me of some of our cultural attitudes that do not bring him glory and helps to teach me to see money and possessions from his perspective. After reading this small quote on possessions I hope that you too will begin to take an honest look at your own attitudes about wealth and possessions, while seeking God’s opinion.

An abundance of possessions can easily lead us to forget that God is the source of all good. We trust in ourselves and our wealth rather than in the Almighty. When we focus on ourselves, we forget no only God but also the people he created. In our self-absorptions, we are fooled by the pleasure of possessing.
Most Christians in the Northern Hemisphere simply do not believe Jesus’ teaching about the deadly danger of possessions. Jesus warned that possessions are highly dangerous-so dangerous, in fact, that it is extremely difficult for a rich person to be a Christian at all: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” (Luke 8:25 NRSV). Christians in the United States live in one of the richest societies in the history of the world, surrounded by a billion desperately needy neighbors and another two billion who are poor. We are far more interested in whether the economy grows than in whether the lot of the poor improves. We insist on more and more, and reason that if Jesus was son un-American that he considered riches dangerous, then we must ignore or reinterpret his message.
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger p.93